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profits in favour of their employees, either as bonus on wages or 
as contributions to Provident Funds, or both; of these 19 both 
paid bonus on wages and allotted sums to Provident Funds, 19 
paid bonus on wages only, and two credited the whole of the 
share in profits allotted to employees to Provident Funds. 
The average addition which the bonus made to the wages of 
participants was, in 1910, 4'4 per cent. 
Share of Employees in Membership, Capital, and Control. 
The extent to which the employees share in the membership, 
•capital and control of the Workers’ Productive Societies will be 
seen from the four Tables printed below : — 
Productive Associations 
other Individuals, 
1899-1910. 
of Workers—Share of Employees, 
and Societies, in the Membership, 
[Compiled from Returns made to the Laboivr Department.] 
Year. 
Number 
of Socie 
ties to 
which 
the Par 
ticulars 
relate. 
Membership. 
Employees. 
Other Individuals. 
Societies. 
Total 
Mem 
bership. 
No. - 
Percent 
age. 
No. 
Percent 
age. 
No. 
Percent 
age. 
1899 ... 
88 
3,285 
19-6 
10,730 
63-8 
2,793 
16*6 
16,808 
1900 ... 
88 
3,616 
21-2 
10,457 
61-4 
2,958 
17-4 
17,031 
1901 ... 
91 
3,683 
21-4 
10,440 
60-7 
3,068 
17-9 
17,191 
1902 ... 
88 
3,421 
19-6 
10,831 
62-2 
3,172 
18-2 
17,424 
1903 ... 
92 
3,279 
18-0 
11,646 
64-0 
3,273 
18-0 
18,198 
1904 ... 
101 
3,469 
17-4 
12,965 
65-2 
3,449 
17'4 
19.883 
1905 ... 
89 
3,332 
19-4 
10,366 
60-3 
3,479 
20-3 
17,177 
1906 ... 
97 
3,478 
18-3 
11,779 
62-1 
3,719 
19-6 
18,976 
1907 ... 
86 
3,372 
18-4 
11,071 
60-6 
3,832 
21-0 
18,275 
1908 ... 
84 
3,570 
16-1 
14,892 
67-1 
3,738 
16-8 
22,200 
1909 ... 
83 
3,758 
16-6 
15,018 
66-3 
3,872 
17-1 
22,648 
1910 ... 
78 
3,699 
16-0 
15,510 
66-9 
3,964 
17-1 
23,173 
It will be seen that in the year 1910 nearly 67 per cent, of the 
members of the 78 Associations which have supplied information 
(and which represent 95 per cent, of the total sales of the 86 
Productive Associations of Workers) were persons not employed 
by the Associations, 17 per cent, were other Co-operative Societies, 
and only 16 per cent, (as against 19'6 per cent, in 1899) were 
employees of the Associations. The voting strength of the 
employees is, however, greater than would appear from these 
figures, because proxy voting is very seldom allowed by the rules 
of these Associations, and employees are, of course, more likely to 
be on the spot than the “ other individuals.”